Paris, capital of modernity
"Paris has long been one of the most influential cities in the world, but it was during the days of the "Second Empire" that the city became the template for modernity as we have come to know it. In the period between the failed revolutions of 1848 and 1871, Paris underwent a stunning transformation. Baron Hausmann, the city's legendary prefect, orchestrated the physical makeover of Paris, replacing the city's medieval plan with the grand boulevards that dominate the city to this day. Just as important, the era saw both the rise of a new form of capitalism dominated by high finance and the emergence of modern consumer culture. The sweeping social and physical changes elicited the novel cultural response of "modernism," but also further divided the city along class lines. The result was the rise and bloody suppression of the Paris Commune in 1871, which is recounted here in vivid detail
Print Book, English, ©2006
1st Routledge pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Routledge, New York, ©2006
History
xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780415952200, 9780415944212, 0415952204, 041594421X
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Introduction: Modernity as Break
pt. 1. Representations: Paris 1830-1848
1. The Myths of Modernity: Balzac's Paris
2. Dreaming the Body Politic: Revolutionary Politics and Utopian Schemes, 1830-1848
pt. 2. Materializations: Paris 1848-1870
3. Prologue
4. The Organization of Space Relations
5. Money, Credit, and Finance
6. Rent and the Propertied Interest
7. The State
8. Astract and Concrete Labor
9. The Buying and Selling of Labor Power
10. The Condition of Women
11. The Reproduction of Labor Power
12. Consumerism, Spectacle, and Leisure
13. Community and Class
14. Natural Relations
15. Science and Sentiment, Modernity and Tradition
16. Rhetoric and Representation
17. The Geopolitics of Urban Transformation
pt. 3. Coda
18. The Building of the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur
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